Comments on: Moving back home with your parents is a good career move http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:23:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: kednrvfo pvcylxit http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-168237 kednrvfo pvcylxit Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:19:17 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-168237 zcpgjisxe wdoh gpwu xtohlevc zgokhqjrm vdwk arwsugh zcpgjisxe wdoh gpwu xtohlevc zgokhqjrm vdwk arwsugh

]]> By: Persuasion http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-105210 Persuasion Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:15:34 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-105210 Getting a condo for independence while studying is overrated. Sure you can enjoy all the booze and snooze but imagine the dent it makes on your savings. Yep, I stayed with my folks all the way till my Ph.D. I ultimately saved and earned enough to start a few businesses even during my studies! Saving is smart. Getting a condo for independence while studying is overrated.

Sure you can enjoy all the booze and snooze but imagine the dent it makes on your savings.

Yep, I stayed with my folks all the way till my Ph.D. I ultimately saved and earned enough to start a few businesses even during my studies!

Saving is smart.

]]> By: Kate Lewis http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-87989 Kate Lewis Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:45:50 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-87989 Thank you Thomas for backing us up. As a recent college grad in California, I can assure you that saving up for after graduation while still in school is a nightmare. I struggled to pay the $17,000 a year tuition along with the $600 monthly rent (not to mention the utilities and food) by holding two jobs while still an undergrad... and I should mention that I live in a small college town. My friend who goes to school in San Francisco is working hard right now to pay her tuition and rent... I can't imagine living in the city with what I'm making. $1500 a month for a one bedroom condo is a terrible reality in places like San Francisco. Thank you Thomas for backing us up. As a recent college grad in California, I can assure you that saving up for after graduation while still in school is a nightmare. I struggled to pay the $17,000 a year tuition along with the $600 monthly rent (not to mention the utilities and food) by holding two jobs while still an undergrad… and I should mention that I live in a small college town. My friend who goes to school in San Francisco is working hard right now to pay her tuition and rent… I can't imagine living in the city with what I'm making. $1500 a month for a one bedroom condo is a terrible reality in places like San Francisco.

]]> By: Thomas Gerling http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72858 Thomas Gerling Fri, 18 May 2007 06:42:25 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72858 Mary Webb, are you out of your mind? Consider the cost of college when you suggest saving money for what happens after you leave. Then consider this. With Wages for American workers flat or in decline, we have starter homes going for $300,000 and the cost to rent over $1,000 per month. Gas prices here in California are about $3.45, while the cost of our food in this state as gone up 5.7% since the start of 2007. There really is nowhere left for the middle class to turn in America. The rising cost of food, insurance, shelter and transportation to go with declining wages, I don't know how young people are going to make it. Mary Webb, are you out of your mind? Consider the cost of college when you suggest saving money for what happens after you leave. Then consider this. With Wages for American workers flat or in decline, we have starter homes going for $300,000 and the cost to rent over $1,000 per month. Gas prices here in California are about $3.45, while the cost of our food in this state as gone up 5.7% since the start of 2007. There really is nowhere left for the middle class to turn in America. The rising cost of food, insurance, shelter and transportation to go with declining wages, I don't know how young people are going to make it.

]]> By: Quizshow http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72692 Quizshow Fri, 18 May 2007 00:25:12 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72692 If my comment is unclear, I did attend college and earned two degrees, graduating magna cum laude. If my comment is unclear, I did attend college and earned two degrees, graduating magna cum laude.

]]> By: Quizshow http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72691 Quizshow Fri, 18 May 2007 00:23:58 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72691 Not sure if I count as a boomeranger, since I never left home to go to college, but I'm working my continued home time as practice for after I leave the nest. I pay on the rent, pay a couple of utilities, do own laundry, own food, etc. People shouldn't assume that all boomerangers are leeches. each circumstance is different. No one should feel ashamed for taking their time to leap into the world and or taking a step back to assist their family as I did. And I know I'll be a lot better off for it. Not sure if I count as a boomeranger, since I never left home to go to college, but I'm working my continued home time as practice for after I leave the nest. I pay on the rent, pay a couple of utilities, do own laundry, own food, etc. People shouldn't assume that all boomerangers are leeches. each circumstance is different. No one should feel ashamed for taking their time to leap into the world and or taking a step back to assist their family as I did. And I know I'll be a lot better off for it.

]]> By: Mary Webb http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72623 Mary Webb Thu, 17 May 2007 22:08:13 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2005/05/15/moving-back-home-with-your-parents-is-a-good-career-move/#comment-72623 For the most part, Generation Y is becoming less and less productive because they live with their parents. It sounds great, living rent-free and not having to pay for much. Yes, this is a good way to save money, but it seems like so many more college grads are just staying at home and becoming less productive in society. While in college, students should be utilizing their money and saving up for when they do actually graduate. Therefore, when the graduation day comes and goes, they can be productive, self-sufficient adults in the world and they don't have to go running to their parents for money. For the most part, Generation Y is becoming less and less productive because they live with their parents. It sounds great, living rent-free and not having to pay for much. Yes, this is a good way to save money, but it seems like so many more college grads are just staying at home and becoming less productive in society. While in college, students should be utilizing their money and saving up for when they do actually graduate. Therefore, when the graduation day comes and goes, they can be productive, self-sufficient adults in the world and they don't have to go running to their parents for money.

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